Quotes with self-interest

Quotes 621 till 640 of 886.

  • Cecil J. Sharpe The essence of all immorality and sin is making ourselves the center around which we subordinate all interest.
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  • James A. Froude The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • John Updike The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Ben Shapiro The European style of living is seductive: fewer hours worked, more hours at the cafe, less concern over self-betterment. But that style of living does not produce a purposeful life.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Charles Caleb Colton The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Carol Moseley Braun The fact is that the diversity in this political class serves the same interest as diversity in any arena, which is it stirs the competitive pot.
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • Edmund Waller The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
    Edmund Waller
    English poet and politician (1606 - 1687)
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  • Bernie Sanders The Federal Reserve needs to provide small businesses in America with the same low-interest loans it gave to foreign banks.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Ben Bernanke The Federal Reserve's job is to do the right thing, to take the long-run interest of the economy to heart, and that sometimes means being unpopular. But we have to do the right thing.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Pearl Bailey The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
    Pearl Bailey
    American actress (1918 - 1990)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Augustus William Hare The first step to self-knowledge is self-distrust. Nor can we attain to any kind of knowledge, except by a like process.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Buddha The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Lionel Trilling The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.
    Lionel Trilling
    American Critic (1905 - 1975)
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  • Carl Sagan The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams from generation to generation. We all bear the cost of keeping it running. Illiteracy is its linchpin.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Benjamin Haydon The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • David Sarnoff The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.
    David Sarnoff
    American Entrepreneur (1891 - 1971)
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  • Bono The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro The greatest bulwark against an overreaching government, as tyrants know, is a religious population. That is because religious people form communities of interest adverse to government control of their lives; religious communities rely on their families and each other rather than an overarching government utilizing force.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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